The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-11-11

| ACCAAAlG SWlAAo AOA a 4ANAuSs
Go to the ant, thou sluggard, consider her
| ways and be wise, which having no overseer or
| guide provideth her food in the summer and
| gathereth her meat in the harvest.
The devil does not so often attack the
man who is busy with the pen, and the
| book, and the trowel, and the saw and the
hammer. He is afraid of those weapons.
| But woe to that man whom this roaring
| lion meets with his hands in his pockets.
Do not demand that your toll always be
elegant, and cleanly and refined. There
ia certain amount of drudgery through
! which we must pass, whatever be our oc-
cupation. You know how men are SEN
! fenced, a certain number of years to
prison, and after they have suffered and
worked out the time, then they are al
| lowed to go free. And so it is with all of
| US God passed on us the sentence:
| BY the sweat of thy brow shalt thou eat bread.
We must endure our time of drudgery,
and then, after awhile, we will be allowed
to go into comparative liberty. We must
be willing to endure the sentence We
all know what drudgery is connected
with the beginning of any trade or pro-
fession, but this does not continue all our
| lives, if it be the students, or the mer-
chants, or the mechanics life.
I know you have at the beginning many
a hard time, but after awhile these things
will become easy. You will have your
own master. Gods sentence will be sat
| isfied. You will be discharged from
prison. Bless God that you have brain
to think and hands to work and feet to
| walk with, for tin your const ant activity,
| o young man, is one of your strongest de-
fenses. Put your trust in God and do
! your level best.
Again, profound respect for the Sab
bath will be to the young man a power
full preservative against evil God has
thrust into the toll and fatigue of life
recreative day, when the soul is especially
to be fed. 1t is no new-fangled notion
| of a wild Drained reformer, but
an institution established at the
beginning. God has made natural and
moral laws so harmonious that the body
| as well as the soul demands this instit u
| tion. Our bodies are seven-day clocks,
| that must be wound up as often as that,
or they will run down. Failure must come
sooner or later to the man who breaks the
! Sabbath. Inspiration has called it the
Lords Day, and he who devotes it to the
world is guilty of robbery God will not
let the sin go unpublished either in this
world or the world to come.
This is the statement of a man who had
| broken this divine enactment: 81 was en-
! gagged in manufacturing ON the Lehigh
river. On the Sabbath I used to rest, but
never regarded God in it. One beautiful
and the day was all that loveli-
ness could make it, 1 sat down on my
| piazza, and went to work inyenting a
| new shuttle. I neither stopped TO eat
| nor drink till the went down. By that
| time had the invention completed. The
next morning / exhibited it, boasted Of
my days work, and was applauded. The
shuttle was tried and worked we'll, but
that Sabbath days work cost me thirty
thousand dollars. We branched out and
| enlarged, and the curse of Heaven was
upon me from that day onward"
While the divine frown must rest upon
him who tramples upon this statu te, Gods
| special favor will be upon that young man
| who scrupulously observes it. This day,
properly observed, will throw a hallowed
influence over all the week. The song,
and sermon, and sanctuary will hold back
| from presumptuous scenes. That young
man who begins the duties of life
! with either secret or open disrespect
of the holy day, venture to prophesy,
| will meet with prominent sue
| cesses. Gods curse will fall upon his
ship, his store, his Office, his studio, his
body and his soul. The way of the wicked
he turneth upside down. In one Of the
| old fables it was said that wonderful
| child was born in Bagdad, and a magician
could hear his footsteps six thousand
| miles away. But I can hear in the foot
step of that young man on his way to the
| house Of worship this morning, step not
| only of a lifetime of usefulness, but the
coming step of eternal joys Of heavens
| yet millions of miles away.
Again, noble Fideal, and confident ex-
| pectation of approximating to it, will in
fallibly advance. The artist completes in
| his mind the great thought that he wishes
to transfer to the canvas or the marble
| before he takes up the crayon or the
| oh ho owobfkart nj fha
| entire structure before he or
| ders the workmen to begin, and, though
| there may for long while seem to be
nothing but laundering and rudeness, he
has in his mind every Corinthian wreath
and Gothic arch and Byzantine capital.
| The poet arranges the entire plot before ne
begins to chime the first canto Of tinglinR
rythms. And yet, stranger to US, there
are men who attempt to build their char
| acter without knowing in the end whether
| it shall be a rude traitors den or a st.
| Marks of Venice; men who begin to
| write the intricate poem of their lives
without knowing whether IL shall be a
Homer's "OdYssey" or a arhymster's botch.
Nine hundred and ninety-nine men out
| Of a thousand are living without any
great life-plot. Booted and spurred, and
plumed, and urging their swift courser in
| the hottest haste. ! come out and ask:
''Halloo, man, whittier awayW His re-
sponse is; "Now here"
Rush into the busy shop or store Of
many a one, and taking the plane out Of
the mans hand and laying down the
| yard-stick say: fWhat, man, is all this
| about, 50 much stir and sweat~ The re-
ply will stumble and break down between
| teeth and lips.
Every days duty ought only to be the
following up Of the main plan Of exist
ence. Letmen be consistent IF they prefer
let them draw out the design Of knavery,
and cruelty, and pluuder. Let every days
| falsehood and wroug-dOing be added as
| coloring to the picture. Let bloody deeds
/ red stripe the canvas, and the clouds Of a
| wrathful God hang down heavily over the
| canvas, ready 70 break out in ciamorous
| tempest Let the waters be ehafed, a
| froth- -tangle, and green with immeasura-
! bic depths. Then take torch Of burning
/ pitch and scorch into the frame Of the
| picture the right name for il; namely, the
| SOUPS suicide.
If one entering upon sinful directions
| would only, in his mind or ON paper, draw
out in in awful reality this dreadful fu-
ture he would recOil from IL, and say:
| Gam I a Dante, that by my own life I
| should write another Inferno" But IL
| you are res oIved TO live a life such as God
| and good men viii approve, do not let 10
/ be a vague dream, an indefinite deter
| mination, but I'm your mind or upon paper
| sketch It in ali It's minutia. You can not
| know the changes 20 which you may be
| subjected, bat you may know what al
| ways will be right and always will be
| wrong. Let gentieness, and charity. and
| veracity, and faith stand in the heart Of
/ the sketch. On some still brooks bank
| make lamb and lion lie down together.
! Draw two or three Of the trees Of ife not
/ rost-stricken, nor ice glazed, nof wind
! stripped, but with thick vsrdure
| waving like the palms of
| Heaven. On the darkest cloud